Relative root issues with gitlab

StackOverflow sure seems to get a lot of good answers. This entry addresses an issue I've been struggling with for some time related to setting relative roots in ruby on rails applications.

I'm using some Turnkey Linux templates with ProxMox and one is gitlab, but changing the relative root I was still missing some icons when loading the gitlab pages.

According the the post above after updating the config files I needed to go into the gitlab home folder and run:

bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production RAILS_RELATIVE_URL_ROOT=/gitlab

This took several minutes to complete (that's how you know its working?) but fixed my problem.

Pacman and "exists in filesystem" errors

Every now and then I try to update and am rebuffed because some file already exists and would be overwritten.

To find out what package owns the file: pacman -Qo /path/to/file

To install anyway and overwrite the existing file(s): pacman -S --force $package

Each installed package has a folder under /var/lib/pacman/local/ with metadata about the package.

Some ProxMox commands.

I've figured out how to bulk clone VMs in Proxmox which is very useful.

qm clone $VM_ID $CLONEID -name "$NAME" -pool "$POOL"

There are several other things that are useful dealing with clusters at http://wmunguiam.blogspot.com/2013/02/remove-node-cluster-forever-on-proxmox.html

List nodes:

pvecm nodes

Remove cluster node:

pvecm delnode node_name

But this may fail if you don't have a "quorum", in which case you change the number of nodes voting:

pvecm expected 1

Then delete the node.